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[Uday Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulrich Mueller writes:

> Beyond that, I'm not sure. If we had GNU Emacs 23 only, things could
> be much simplified, but I don't know about the situation for XEmacs.

I have checked Xemacs after I made my comment here.  XEmacs does seem
to behave like a "non-MULE" Emacs, in Julian's terminology.  So the
variable makes sense for it.

If I have 'windows-1252 in the variable then it gets displayed (but
with funny display for non-ASCII characters).  If not, I just get a
MIME button.

Uday

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8bit UTF-8 body not being displayed correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491523
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Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: Fix Committed

Bug description:
Robert Andersson reports:

> On Emacs 23.1.1 (macosx 10.5.8) I have a problem to see non-ascii
> characters (they get garbled) when
> 
>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> and
> 
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> I wonder if this is really a VM error, when editing the latter email-
> header to quoted-printable on can see the characters as they should
> be. Someone got some thoughts about this?

Perchance, I received today a message sent from our webmail system, which had "8bit" encoding, and VM failed to display it correctly.  When I changed the encoding header to quoted-printable, it displayed correctly.  However, the characters were not actually encoded.  So, VM is indeed behaving strangely.  

This is happening when the entire message body is in utf-8 with "8bit" encoding.  When one of the MIME parts is in utf-8 with "8bit" encoding, VM seems to deal with it ok.  

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.vm.info/browse_thread/thread/3d9d0e630e0b4e4f#